Taylor Berman

More horrific news from the Cleveland
neighborhood where Ariel Castro tortured three women for a decade: On
Monday, Elias Acevedo Sr, Castro's neighbor, pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges, including two counts of murder and the rape of
his three daughters and sister-in-law.

Acevedo told authorities that they he
and Pemberton were drinking with friends and later walked to Clark
Field in Tremont. When Pemberton refused to have sex with him and
yelled at him, he raped and strangled her, leaving her body in a
wooded area where it was later discovered by neighborhood boys.

Just 2 ½ months later, Acevedo said he
ran into Adkins on West 25th Street. The 18-year old was five
months pregnant and was upset. Acevedo convinced her to walk with him
to an area near a highway interchange. When she resisted having sex
with him, he raped her.

When she threatened to tell her
boyfriend and Acevedo's wife what happened, Acevedo told
investigators he snapped and killed her, and put her body into a
nearby utility vault, where it stayed for 18 years.

Acevedo was sentenced to 445 years in prison with no chance of parole.

Police began investigating Acevedo shortly after Castro's arrest, when—in the course of reexamining similar missing women cases from the area—they discovered that Acevedo, a convicted sex offender, had not registered his new address.